Category: Independent Calendar

  • Applications available for Clean Water grants

    The BoatU.S. Foundation for Boating Safety and Clean Water, Alexandria, Va., is seeking nonprofits to help educate mariners about good environmental habits using grants of up to $4,000 for clean boating projects. Deadline is Feb. 1 to apply for a Clean Water grant, which is designed to educate boaters on issues such as pumpout education…

  • Applications now taken for MS scholarships

    The National Multiple Sclerosis (MS) Society is accepting applications for its 2005 National MS Society Scholarship Program through Feb. 16. The scholarships provide financial relief for individuals affected by MS pursuing a postsecondary education. Awards are based on financial need, academic record, and a personal essay discussing the effect of MS on the individual. For…

  • Donations still sought for Red Cross IRF

    The American Red Cross has announced as of Jan. 5 the public has pledged approximately $119.3 million to the American Red Cross International Response Fund (IRF) for tsunami victims. Funds will be spent toward the tsunami and earthquake emergency in southern Asia and eastern Africa. The Red Cross will provide updates about relief efforts on…

  • Kids’ series continues at Hazlet Library

    Hazlet Public Library, 251 Middle Road, will offer its preschool story time series for children age 3-5 Jan. 18 with a “Let It Snow” craft project, and Jan. 25 with “Perky Penguins.” Children must be age 3 at the start of the story time series, and may choose from the 11-11:30 a.m. or 1:30-2 p.m.…

  • Area students holding drive for tsunami victims

    Students at Thompson Middle School, Middletown, will be accepting financial donations for CARE for victims of the recent tsunami for the next two weeks. CARE members are dispensing food, water and medical supplies to victims of the tsunami. The Thompson student activities organization under the guidance of Principal Patrick Houston, and teachers Michael Melando and…

  • Art, jewelry programs offered by park system

    The Monmouth County Park System will offer “Faux Finishes” Jan. 19 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. The workshop will offer instruction in sponging, tortoise-shell finishes, faux marble and other styles. The cost is $32 per person, and attendees need to bring an assortment of brushes, acrylic or latex paint, and three 4-by-6-inch pieces of…

  • Art, exercise classes offered by Brookdale

    The office of business and community development at Brookdale Community College will offer “Drawing for Beginners” Jan. 22 from 10 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. at the main campus on Newman Springs Road, Lincroft section of Middletown. The program is designed to help aspiring artists apply general eye-hand coordination to the world of drawing. Course code…

  • Skimming the top

    CHRIS KELLY staff Middletown’s Andrew Dillon, 16, a member of the New Jersey Skim, uses his skim-board on an unusually warm January day in the waters off Sea Bright, Jan. 1.

  • On Campus

    Theresa Manning, Hazlet, has been named to the dean’s list for the fall semester at Rochester (N.Y.) Institute of Technology, where she is a freshman studying packaging science at the institute’s college of applied science technology. A graduate of High Technology High School, Lincroft section of Middletown, she is the daughter of Ann and Ed…